Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

He cannot be considered positively as he made his big company bankrupt ....

Check the deficit and debt and and food banks after four and half years of tory mismanagement. (With borrowing rates at a low.)

Check the handouts to Cameron's mates and the bribes from them to the confidence trickster's party's coffers.

The General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg accepted the petition by Hamas in which it sought to have itself removed from the EU's list of terrorist organizations.

Hopefully they will add Israel to the list.

Putin has been voted Man of the Year by Russians for the 15th year in a row.

Let's hope for peace and prosperity return to the region.

Does anyone remember paternoster lifts? Looking back I am amazed that they were allowed on H&S grounds. I worked somewhere and never thought much about them at the time.

It is very quiet on this board.

Everybody down the pub drinking their successes or sorrows away, or just busy pushing buttons?

A simple answer to the English Question

The one logical solution is that only English MPs can vote on English laws

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/11297953/A-simple-answer-to-theEnglish-Question.html

Therein lies the problem, when was anything fair and simple ever done quickly in politics?


"They need to stick with one: that only English MPs will vote on English laws. That is fair and simple and can be done quickly."

Labour is very unhappy with that approach as it might take away any majority they might have. It would mean that they might win an election and then always get their budget voted down. Their losses in Scotland could cripple Labour's ability to pass legislation.

If it was only that simple said a butterfly to another butterfly!

But I think that Wales should have the rights to make their own laws and the outlaw the English, or at least make them apply for visas (so that we can turn them down) when they intend visiting, and of course fees crossing the border increase the charges for Welsh water.

Also, double the price for Welsh Lamb, especially for certain individuals.

Fred, the voice of reason.

"Haystack - 17 Dec 2014 11:30 - 53162 of 53179

Prescott refers to Miliband as 'Red Ed' on BBC Today programming

http://order-order.com/2014/12/16/prezzas-red-ed-slip-on-today-programme/"

Have you only just discovered that H/S... please keep up.

fred - 53158 - chaos theory of course has some validity, but if the scots are so adamant that they want devolution, then it is logical that they then shouldn't have influence over the bits and pieces, some of them substantial, that are not of their direct concern

i don't approve of this being used as a political football, but it really is such a gift horse that any party would do similarly if it was to their benefit .... you will recollect that labour re-drew the constituency lines for a number of supposed sensible reasons, but of course it was really to benefit their voting demographic (if that is the right term)

As I posted before, if the majority of Scotland want independence, so be it.

I think it reasonable to try to dissuade them by reasonable argument.

However, I think it is B. stupid and the actions necessary to disentangle Scotland from UK will be costly, long winded, complicated and full of holes, if attempted.

But, I can see why the Scots and other minorities are alienated from the present governing "mob".

Prefer to see Scotland in the UK with the same representation at
Westminster as other areas of the UK.

That is what need sorting out.

If countries are bound together economically in a democracy then the law, rules regulations should apply evenly.


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Recently, I drove through the Rhondda and other valleys and was depressed by the ongoing depression in the local villages and town.

They were once bustling and had optimism "40 years" while the wealth was being plundered, without them knowing. The same happened in Scotland and other areas over memorable past.

That is one of the reason for discontentment with the London Mob rule.

there's an awful lot of "red rubbish" in your post fred, especially about wales, though i agree, it is a very depressing region (rain, sheep, slag heaps) ..... but then cornwall lost it's tin mining too

the scottish question is very different indeed ..... though the clyde used to be the ship-building centre of the world, all sorts of things meant that the yards became hopelessly uneconomic, but that really has little or even no relevance to the question in hand

the scots, for whatever reason, have demanded a degree of devolution to full independence for at least a couple of decades
now they have been granted it, its no good them (or you) complaining about the result and effects

in conclusion, we/you/they will have to live with it and adapt accordingly .... such is the way the world moves

I would expect all the Labour party to calk him 'Red Ed'.

We have a couple of word in Welsh which aptly describes you, "twp iawn".

Another area being depressed does not diminish the responsibility for those who partook in the occurrences, if it could have been avoided.

The management of the economy was short term and inappropriate and could have been different, if it hadn't been motivated by ideological greed.

you really do spout a load of crap at times or even a lot of the time

tell us about how the unions could have done so much to prevent the demise of the ship yards or the coal mines or the car industry

bet you will be unable to do that without it sticking in your craw and then telling us that it was actually pretty much everyone else's fault, with little lying at the door of the unions

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by the way, your welsh is unintelligible even to the translators on internet

The trade unions did excellent work historically. They still do very good work supporting workers in some situations.

Apart from that, many are trouble makers, empire builders and basically corrupt. They attempted to damage this country in the 1970s and since then. They ruined the car, newspaper, docks and several other industries.